1/ 2 teaspoons of fennel seeds, roasted in a dry pan for about 5 minutes on medium high heat. Set aside. Turn the heat off. Crush the seeds in a pestle & mortar. The fennel seeds will smell amazing when roasted! Real flavour!

1 egg, beaten

Maldon sea salt

black pepper

* For the sweet potato fries:

3 sweet potatoes, peeled & cut up into wedges or in batons

some Maldon sea salt

4 tablespoons of soft fruity olive oil

1/2 teaspoon of Cayenne pepper

2 teaspoons of sweet smoked paprika/ I use Pimentón de la Vera. This is smoked dulce paprika. The paprika has a sweet smoked flavour! MMM,…

* To serve with:

2 purple sweet onions, peeled & cut up into rings, baked in a pan with some baking margarine. Keep warm.

1. First make the meat mix. Take a food processor & put the meat, the beaten egg, the chopped parsley, the breadcrumbs, the grated onion, the grinned fennel seeds & some Maldon sea salt & black pepper in it. Pulse or mix everything together until it resembles all mixed. Taste. Season extra according to taste.

2. With a spoon, make 4 burgers out of the mix. Flatten them with your hands.

3. Put them in cling film & place into the fridge. I leave them there for about 2 hours.

4. After 2 hours, take the meat out of the fridge. Take away the cling film.

5. Preheat the oven to 220 ° C.

6. Take a non stick baking dish, I used 2. Place the sweet potato wedges in it, in a single layer.

12. Place into the oven & bake until sticky & cooked trough. Sometimes this will take 20 minutes, depending on the size of the wedges or batons.

13. In the mean time, take a large non stick pan & heat up on high. Add baking margarine. When melted & sizzling, add your 4 burgers & bake until cooked trough. Bake on high heat the first 5 minutes on both sides & turn the heat down for the last 5 minutes.

14. If you want, you can bake your onion rings now because these will take only 10 minutes to bake. Keep warm.

15. To serve: take your dinner roll & smear the bottom with mayonnaise. Put lettuce on it. Place your burger on it. Put ketchup on that. Add a slice of the tomato. Put some baked onion rings on that & add some extra lettuce leaves. Top with the other half of dinner roll, smeared with ketchup! Serve your sweet potato fries on the side! They are spicy & so good!!

Enjoy it twice!

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